As a professional actor, one of the most challenging tasks is memorizing lines fast. Fear not, in this blog, we have compiled 20 clever memorization techniques. These tips will help you become a master at memorizing lines in no time. From rewriting your lines to utilizing the power of repetition, chunk memorization, and timing techniques, …
The nerves never go away, and they shouldn’t. Bad nerves come from work you didn’t do; good nerves come from caring. How to tell them apart, how to change the word you use for the feeling, and the one time I jumped out of a plane.
The question we hear most: what can I do at home so I stop getting the same note every week? Three things, every day. Work your diction on everyone you talk to, five minutes of breath, and find a physical life for your lines.
An actor who moved from Colorado to Phoenix in 2018 looking for a studio and found one. Jonathan’s Dearing Story, in his words: acting is not easy, there is a place for you if you work, and why he wants to be seen on screen.
A Southwest Airlines flight attendant whose kids trained here first, and whose car, in her words, drove itself into the parking lot in 2015. Carol’s Dearing Story: the first night, why she was awesome, and what fearless looks like a few years in.
A swimmer and athlete who found the studio through a search in 2018, was greeted at the door with a hug, and went on to Masterclass and then USC. Jada’s Dearing Story: being the character instead of performing it, and why the word is liberating.
Highs and lows are exhausting, even the highs. Brian, Joey and me on the first move (stop saying nothing, I’m good), the question Leeann asked me that I’d never been asked, why every emotion layers down to love and how an actor uses that, Obi-Wan on feelings, and the fantasy draft that proved our anger was about us.
Galatians 6, a man reaps what he sows, and Newton’s third law, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Brian, Joey and me on the phone call to your mom that changes a stranger’s day, the rock steps Brian climbed at the cabin, my one-year-old and the DVDs, why I got up at 3:30 for a show I could have prepared over the weekend, and the three-step takeaway: be honest, adjust, track.
Hebrews 12:28, a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and an hour with Brian and Joey on how to be that in life, at work and on a stage. The old tree and its roots, a baby’s diaper, my kitchen floor torn out by a restoration crew, the car Brian talked me out of by asking one question, and the student I told to sit closer to my desk.
What fear actually does to your body, why naming your own reaction is the first move, the stand-up class where five of twenty raised a hand, and the exercises we use in the room to walk toward it on purpose.
Joey took the microphone alone for this one, with a slide he made himself, and told a story I had only heard in private: the year he was told he could not graduate on time, the year he hid from it, and what finishing did for him.
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